Panaji, November 23, 2007: The NGO, Goa’s Movement Against SEZ today held a day-long sit-in hunger strike at the Panaji jetty demanding immediate scrapping of all 18 SEZs in Goa. Continue reading ‘Anti-SEZ activists resort to hunger strike’
Daily Archive for November 24th, 2007
Nandini Sundar
It is hard to decide which is more unappetising – the spectacle of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya declaring that the CPM had paid protestors back in their own coin at Nandigram, or the BJP and Congress condemning the violence there, ignoring their own culpability for similar behaviour in Chhattisgarh and Gujarat. Continue reading ‘Is there a difference between left and right?: Nandigram and Salwa Judum’
New Delhi, November 24, 2007: Developers of special economic zones (SEZs) may have to employ one person from each family displaced due to a project even if the family did not own any land. The government may make some amendments in the resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) policy to incorporate the changes. Continue reading ‘SEZ developers to hire landless displaced’
Panaji, November 23, 2007: The NGO, Goa’s Movement Against SEZ today held a day-long sit-in hunger strike at the Panaji jetty demanding immediate scrapping of all 18 SEZs in Goa. Continue reading ‘Anti-SEZ activists resort to hunger strike’
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